Update: Patch is now live
Diablo 3 Beta Patch 11 - Official Patch Notes
I guess we shouldn't get too excited about this patch.
Official Blizzard Quote:
Diablo III Beta Patch 11 – v.0.6.1.8350
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a number of game and service crashes
No Death Animations
Remember the awesome death animation with the Barbarian and the Siegebreaker Assault Beast? Well, the awesome death animations are not in the game.
Official Blizzard Quote:
Unfortunately we never managed to get these implemented. They were a really cool idea, but a pretty huge amount of work. The one we showed of the siegebreaker was a scripted sequence we set up specifically for that video. It was never implemented, and never actually worked without someone sitting there typing in a bunch of commands to get it all to fire off properly. It's still something we'd like to do, though.
All things considered there are just higher priority tasks sometimes. We'd love, for example, to have the monk display his weapons during all of his skill animations. But it's an enormous animation and effects investment to get it done, and we have to weigh all of these things against other features and polish. A lot of the skills we could improve have multiple animation sets, multiplied twice for each gender, and then multiplied by each weapon type he can equip. That can be 40 or more unique animations, and then there's a full FX pass, approvals, QA testing, etc. etc. and that'd just be for 1 skill.
We have our wish lists, but it's a balancing act of resources. Ideally our choices when balancing go toward setting realistic limitations, and producing the best game possible.
Blizzard is Looking for a Game Recruiter
If anyone works in the industry or is just following who is working for Blizzard, they are looking for a game recruiter.
Official Blizzard Quote:
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TL;DR
I wonder if they fixed the duping crap?
I wonder if they fixed the duping crap? this guy keeps bugging me to dupe my crossbows for him ><
[well bug fixes ARE good, but you know what I mean, no sexy hidden changes]
Maybe cause they filled in all the sexy they needed? I think this is a good thing though. Another patch just a few days after Patch 10 makes me think that we are very close to release date. But it could just be that the bugs were easy to fix.
- Fixed a bug that caused millions of people to suspect a release date is appoun us.
- Fixed a bug that prevented us from hesitating on keeping the game away, and shall now promptly sit on our selves as we "polish" the game.
- Fixed a bug that caused Diablo Fans to speculate on known issues as being signs of release.